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• 1 2018-03-04T23:08:02-08:00 An Analysis of One Leader in a Leaderless Time 12 visual_path 2018-04-07T03:24:08-07:00 Between the reign of African American leaders Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr., the black population in the South floundered without a unifying hand. In its absence, local black leaders assumed the mantle of leadership for their brethren in issues directly pertaining to their lives, specifically in areas of education, business, housing, sanitation, health, and medical care. In the central Texas town of Taylor, Dr. James Lee Dickey was that person. Delve into the following sections to learn about African American lives in the years following emancipation, the leaders that guided them and the actions of one physician, James Lee Dickey, that caused a Southern town to name him Citizen of the Year a decade before Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Civil Rights Movement.